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Josef Neumann: ''Cities and regions are key to promoting human rights of people with disabilities''

Josef Neumann: ''Cities and regions are key to promoting human rights of people with disabilities''[10/04/2014]

At a conference on ''Human Rights and Disabilities'' held under the Austrian Chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in Vienna on 10 April 2014, Congress Rapporteur Josef Neumann (Germany, SOC) highlighted the important role of local and regional authorities in effectively promoting human rights and equal opportunities of people with disabilities. ''Human rights have a home, too. Their home is where people live, work, and have families – in the regions and municipalities, districts and neighborhoods at the grassroots,'' he said. ''It is our mission to enable their autonomous lives in freedom and security, unhindered by discrimination – that is, to create conditions for effective freedom for people with disabilities.''